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Stained Glass
This category is devoted to the preservation, artful designs and the craft skills to make a stained glass piece, all questions concerning materials, tools, technical details, historical origins and modern techniques and how-to's will be found here.
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What purpose id stained glass windows serve in the past?
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because most people couldn't read or write in he olden days, vicars decided to put some scenes from the bible onto the windows so that people could learn about Jesus without having to beable to read or write.
What mineral is glass Windows made up of?
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The basic idea is that glass is made out of heated sand, which is silicon dioxide and the key part of that is the silicon.
Chemicals for making common glass are Silica (silicon dioxide, the glassy part), and Sodium Carbonate (Soda Ash), lowers the melting point.
What is the name of a circular window of stained glass?
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In a church, it's usually called a rosette window, but it could also be a mandella.
How much do stained glass windows cost?
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The price of a custom stained glass window depends on the quality of materials, complexity of design and company offering window. They can cost anywhere from 150$ to 1,700$.
Do all churches have stained glass windows?
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Probably. The liturgical arts were thought by the first Lutherans, like those today, to be great aides to worship and learning. That includes statuary, music, carvings, architecture, stained glass and ritual posture. It was the puritanical reforms, which Luther and his fellow reformers rejected, that purged Churches of the Sacred Arts.
What material is used to make a stained glass window?
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Make a cartoon that outlines the design of the window.
How long ago was stained glass invented?
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Probably at the same time that glass itself was invented. The sand from which glass is made naturally contains minerals that will cause the glass to be colored. The earliest glass made was was not clear but strongly colored (often dark, sometimes even nearly opaque).
The first glass makers therefor began working simultaneously in two opposite directions to make various types of glass that they wanted:
- Trying to develop ways to remove these minerals from the raw sand or to bleach out the resulting color in the finished glass, in an attempt to produce clearer more transparent glass. Due to the difficulties of completely removing all of these minerals (especially iron based minerals, which produce a brown color in the finished glass) the development of effective bleaching agents to remove these colors from the finished glass. (note: the purple bottles and purple insulators that are now popular on the antiques market were originally a clear transparent glass made using a permanganate bleaching agent to remove the "iron brown" color from the finished glass, after long exposure to ultraviolet light this bleaching agent broke down to manganese compounds that themselves colored the glass purple. Glass makers long ago replaced this bleaching agent with others that do not break down on exposure to ultraviolet light.)
- Trying to identify which specific minerals produced which specific colors in the finished glass, in an attempt to produce stained glass of desirable colors.
Why did churches use stain glass windows?
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The purpose is not specifically recorded, and has been the subject of much commentary. In my opinion, the purpose was to light the church in a way that was primarily decorative. Rose windows had no pictures or words on them and were purely decorative. You will read that stained glass windows were a way of teaching the Bible to illiterate people, but if you go into a medieval church and look up at the windows, you will see that they pretty much all look alike, and can be distinguished best by the words that were painted and fired onto the glass.
I have provided a link to an article on medieval stained glass below. You can look at the pictures there and decide for yourself whether the idea was more educational or more decorative.
Who repair glass in windows?
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Who invented stain glass windows?
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We do not know who invented stained glass, but it was probably invented in western Europe in the Early Middle Ages. Colored glass had been used earlier for various purposes, and colored designs made of substances other than glass had been used in window areas, but we have no record or evidence of stained glass windows.
The earliest known reference to stained glass dates from 675 AD, at which time workers from France are recorded to have been brought to the monastery of St Peter at Monkwearmouth to glaze the windows.
There is a link below.
Why do they put lead in glass?
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Lead, in the form of lead oxide, PbO, is added to glass to stabilize the matrix and improve the working characteristics of the glass. As a flux, PbO lowers the melting point considerably, and it also decreases the viscosity of the material. Additionally, lead oxide changes (increases) the refractive index of the glass. Use the link below to check facts and learn more.
How much sylables in Stained?
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It has 21. You take the number of letters in the word and multiply it by the number of vowels. So for this word you multiply 7 by 3 and that is 21.
